Retail
Modernize your merchandising and POS systems without breaking them.
Hypercubic moves retailers from COBOL to cloud in quarters — with line-level proofs every pricing, promotion, and inventory-update path behaves identically, continuously audit-ready documentation of the rules that run stores, and the expertise of your senior engineers captured before they retire.
Request Demoof top retailers still run core merchandising on mainframe systems
of retail IT budgets spent maintaining legacy infrastructure
Hypercubic Intervention
| Challenge | Solution |
|---|---|
Three decades of merchandising logic lives in a handful of senior engineersMerchandising systems encode pricing rules, promotion stacking, markdowns, and planogram logic built over decades in COBOL. A few senior engineers know the edge cases. They're retiring. | HyperTwin HyperTwin observes how your senior merchandising engineers navigate pricing and promotion logic, then turns each session into a queryable expert model. New engineers ask it about markdown cascades or promo stacking rules instead of reverse-engineering COBOL. |
PCI audits mean weeks of manual code tracing across payment flowsPCI DSS, CCPA, state privacy laws, and internal SOX controls require demonstrable documentation of every code path touching cardholder or customer data. Today it's assembled by hand every audit cycle. | HyperDocs HyperDocs continuously generates audit-ready documentation of every program and data flow touching cardholder data, loyalty records, or personal information — with traceability to source COBOL. Audit prep drops from weeks to hours. |
Replatforming POS or merchandising is a business-halting riskHoliday freezes leave no forgiving window for migration cutovers. Prior replatform attempts have failed mid-flight when undocumented pricing edge cases surfaced in production. | HyperLoop HyperLoop produces line-level correctness proofs that every pricing, promotion, and inventory-update path in the modernized code behaves identically to the original — so cutovers land without pricing errors, loyalty surprises, or POS downtime. |
Overnight restocking and closeouts depend on fewer and fewer operatorsBatch jobs for restocking, end-of-day closeout, DC dispatch, and nightly pricing updates depend on z/OS operators who triage JCL failures before stores open. You can't hire more of them. | Hopper Hopper works as an AI agent on z/OS — navigating ISPF, submitting JCL, monitoring JES, and triaging incidents with SMF and RACF data. Overnight failures get resolved before they delay a morning store open. |
Built for the systems that actually run stores.
Mainframe runtime
Retail platforms
Compliance & data
Measurable Impact
Faster merchandising system modernization discovery
New team members reach productive understanding of core merchandising and supply chain systems faster than through shadowing senior engineers alone.
Faster store-systems engineer onboarding
Documented batch dependencies, captured SME troubleshooting expertise, and integration maps enable operations teams to diagnose and resolve mainframe issues without escalation to senior engineers.
Faster PCI compliance impact analysis
Accurate, automatically generated documentation of legacy system dependencies replaces months of manual discovery, enabling retail IT organizations to plan and budget modernization initiatives with confidence.
Hypercubic moves retailers from COBOL to cloud in quarters, with line-level proofs every pricing, promotion and inventory-update path behaves identically, continuously audit-ready documentation of the rules that run stores, and the expertise of senior engineers captured before they retire. Eighty percent of top retailers still run core merchandising on mainframe systems and 60% of retail IT budgets are spent maintaining legacy infrastructure.
Yes. Hypercubic supports IBM i and AS/400 retail environments running COBOL and RPG retail applications. Many retail IBM i and AS/400 platforms carry decades of pricing, inventory and supply chain batch processing logic in these languages, with the same modernization challenges as z/OS COBOL. Hypercubic maps the business rules embedded in IBM i and AS/400 codebases before any replacement code is written.
Hypercubic supports retail platforms including SAP Retail, Oracle Retail, JDA/Blue Yonder, Manhattan, Aptos and Epicor, as well as in-house systems. Hypercubic is built for mainframe environments running COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, IBM i (AS/400), Assembler and z/OS. Hypercubic focuses on the legacy mainframe layer that often sits beneath or alongside ERP systems and maps the integration points between the mainframe and ERP, ensuring nothing is lost in translation during modernization.
Hypercubic supports retail POS modernization through HyperLoop, which produces line-level correctness proofs that every pricing, promotion and inventory-update path in the modernized code behaves identically to the original. Holiday freezes leave no forgiving window for migration cutovers. Prior replatform attempts have failed mid-flight when undocumented pricing edge cases surfaced in production. Cutovers land without pricing errors, loyalty surprises or POS downtime.
Hypercubic supports retail merchandising modernization through HyperTwin, which captures decades of pricing rules, promotion stacking, markdowns and planogram logic from retiring merchandising engineers. HyperTwin observes how senior engineers navigate pricing and promotion logic and then turns each session into a queryable expert model. New engineers ask HyperTwin about markdown cascades or promo stacking rules instead of reverse-engineering COBOL. Merchandising system modernization discovery is 60% faster with Hypercubic.
Hypercubic helps retailers meet PCI DSS, CCPA, GDPR and SOX requirements through HyperDocs, which continuously generates audit-ready documentation of every program and data flow touching cardholder data, loyalty records or personal information, with traceability to source COBOL. PCI DSS, CCPA, state privacy laws and internal SOX controls require demonstrable documentation of every code path touching cardholder or customer data. Today it's assembled by hand every audit cycle. PCI compliance impact analysis is 90% faster with Hypercubic.
Yes. Hypercubic works with retailers processing millions of lines of COBOL across thousands of programs. Hypercubic is designed to handle enterprise-scale codebases and complex inter-system dependencies.
Hypercubic captures time-dependent logic, including holiday pricing, seasonal promotions and fiscal calendar calculations, that may only execute certain times of the year and is often the hardest to document manually. This logic is captured in HyperTwin's queryable expert model. New engineers ask HyperTwin about markdown cascades or promo stacking rules instead of reverse-engineering COBOL.
Hypercubic supports overnight restocking and store closeout operations through Hopper, an AI agent that works on z/OS, navigating ISPF, submitting JCL, monitoring JES and triaging incidents with SMF and RACF data. Batch jobs for restocking, end-of-day closeout, DC dispatch and nightly pricing updates depend on z/OS operators who triage JCL failures before stores open. Hopper resolves overnight failures before they delay a morning store open. Documented batch dependencies, captured SME troubleshooting expertise and integration maps enable operations teams to diagnose and resolve mainframe issues without escalation to senior engineers. Store-systems engineer onboarding is 3x faster with Hypercubic.
Hypercubic helps retailers understand every business rule and integration point in existing merchandising, replenishment, POS and EDI systems before migrating to modern e-commerce platforms, reducing migration risk and accelerating timelines. HyperLoop maps every pricing rule, promotion path and integration point in existing systems before any e-commerce re-platform begins.
Your merchandising systems knowledge is walking out the door. Capture it before the next retirement.
Schedule a technical assessment with our retail systems team. We will show you how Hypercubic preserves the expertise embedded in your merchandising, replenishment, POS, and EDI systems.
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